Buteogallus royi Suárez, 2020

Suárez, William, 2022, Catalogue of Cuban fossil and subfossil birds, Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 142 (1), pp. 247-248 : 38

18. † Buteogallus royi Suárez, 2020

Roy’s Hawk (Gavilán de Roy)

Buteogallus royi Suárez, 2020 a, Zootaxa 4780: 20.

Holotype.—Left tarsometatarsus, MNHNCu 75.4909 (Suárez 2020a: 20, figs. 9C [anterior], 10: A [anterior], B [medial], C [posterior]). Collected in San Felipe I, C area, on 12 May 2009 by WS and Stephen Díaz Franco.

Type locality.— Las Breas de San Felipe ( MLB), c. 5.5 km west of Martí , San Felipe Valley, municipality of Martí, Matanzas province, Cuba (Suárez 2020a: 21; for description of this deposit see Iturralde-Vinent et al. 2000). Fig. 5 .

Other material.— Ulna: distal third of right, MNHNCu 75.4737, San Felipe II (Suárez 2020a: 21, fig. 10: D [dorsal], E [ventral]).

Distribution.—Asphalt deposits in west Cuba (see Appendix). Matanzas. Martí: MLB (San Felipe I and II, Suárez 2020a: 21).

Direct 14 C dating .—None. For dating of other bird species at the type locality, see Antigone cubensis , Gymnogyps varonai and Ornimegalonyx oteroi , and of associated extinct mammals ( Parocnus browni = 11,880 ± 420 to 4,960 ± 280 years 14 C BP), see Jull et al. (2004) and Steadman et al. (2005).

Notes.—Extremely rare and unknown outside tar seeps in the west of the archipelago. Roy’s Hawk is currently the smallest of the known extinct species of Buteogallus from Cuba (Suárez 2020a).